Ghost of Tsushima

=== Characters ===
The protagonist, Jin Sakai (Daisuke Tsuji / Kazuya Nakai), is a gokenin, the lord and sole remaining member of Clan Sakai. He is the nephew and ward of Shimura (Eric Steinberg / Akio Ōtsuka), lord of Clan Shimura and the jitō of Tsushima. He meets several friends and companions, including a thief named Yuna (Sumalee Montano / Yu Mizuno), her blacksmith brother Taka (Eddie Shin / Kappei Yamaguchi), a female warrior and widow named Lady Masako Adachi (Lauren Tom / Mabuki Ando), renowned kyūjutsu archer Sensei Sadanobu Ishikawa (François Chau / Shigeru Chiba), merchant and con artist Kenji (James Hiroyuki Liao / Setsuji Sato), Buddhist warrior monk Norio (Earl T. Kim / Mitsuaki Kanuka), Clan Sakai's elderly caretaker Yuriko (Karen Huie / Yuri Tabata), and Jin's childhood friend and leader of the infamous Straw Hat rōnin, Ryuzo (Leonard Wu / Youhei Tadano).
The main antagonist is the ruthless and cunning Khotun Khan of the Mongol Empire (Patrick Gallagher / Tsutomu Isobe), cousin of Kublai Khan and grandson of Genghis Khan.

Plot

In 1274, a Mongol fleet led by Khotun Khan invades the Japanese island of Tsushima. The jitō, Lord Shimura, and his nephew, Jin Sakai, lead an effort by the five ruling clans of the island - Shimura, Sakai, Adachi, Nagao, and Kikuchi - to repel the invaders as they land at Komoda Beach. However, the battle ends in disaster, with the samurai forces decimated by the superior weapons of the Mongols, Shimura captured, and Jin severely wounded and left for dead. He is found and revived by the scavenger Yuna, who informs him the whole island has fallen to the invaders. Jin storms the Khan's stronghold at Castle Kaneda to rescue Shimura but is defeated by the Khan in personal combat and thrown off the castle bridge.
Realizing that he cannot fight the Mongols in the way of the samurai, Jin learns assassination and guerilla warfare tactics from Yuna. He recruits Yuna, her blacksmith brother Taka, sake merchant and swindler Kenji, archer Sadanobu Ishikawa, female samurai Masako Adachi, and his mercenary friend Ryuzo along with Ryuzo's Straw Hat rōnin to form a resistance against Khotun. As Jin disrupts Mongol activities and liberates villages, the islanders revere him as "The Ghost," a samurai spirit that has risen against the Mongols.
Taka crafts a grappling hook for Jin to scale Castle Kaneda's walls undetected; catching the Mongol garrison by surprise, Jin leads his allies in a raid to seize the castle in Shimura's name. Ryuzo then betrays Jin, revealing that Khotun has promised food, money, and rewards to the Straw Hats in exchange for their loyalty. Jin bests Ryuzo and frees his uncle from captivity. Ryuzo then flees to Castle Shimura, where Khotun has transferred his command in preparation for a new military campaign. To replace the Straw Hats, Jin forms an alliance with the Buddhist warrior monks of Tsushima, led by Norio, and helps Shimura reconcile with his former enemies in Clan Yarikawa.
At Shimura's request, Jin ventures to the shanty town of Sanjo Bay to hire the smuggler Goro; with Shimura and Jin providing a distraction, Goro is able to escape Tsushima with a message to the shōgun, requesting military reinforcements and permission for Shimura to adopt Jin as heir to Clan Shimura. Finally, Jin is instructed to visit the decaying estate of Clan Sakai, where his childhood nanny and surrogate mother Yuriko meets him. Suffering from dementia, Yuriko helps Jin retrieve his family's armor and teaches him how to mix poison before dying peacefully.
Taka, eager to prove himself as a warrior, volunteers to assist Jin when Shimura orders him to infiltrate Mongol lines and capture Ryuzo for execution. Khotun ambushes them and has Jin restrained before offering Taka his freedom and whatever he wants if he kills his friend. When Taka instead tries to attack the Khan, he is swiftly overpowered and beheaded. Jin frees himself before the Mongols can deal with him and proceeds to kill the last of the Straw Hats with Yuna's help. He rejoins his uncle and the shogunate forces, taking part in an attack on Castle Shimura. The Khan and his men retreat to the keep and detonate explosives beneath the castle bridge, inflicting heavy casualties. Nevertheless, Shimura orders a fresh attack to take place the following day.
Disillusioned with his uncle's indifference to the lives of their allies, Jin infiltrates the keep to sneak poison into the Mongols' airag and kill Ryuzo. However, he again misses the Khan, who has retreated to another stronghold in the north. Despite the castle being taken without the samurai suffering any further losses, Shimura is furious with Jin for dishonoring the way of the samurai. Jin retorts by criticizing the ineffectiveness of Shimura's "honor" against the dishonorable Mongols. Knowing the shogunate will force him to have Jin put to death, Shimura urges him to use Yuna as a scapegoat, denounce the "Ghost" and his actions, and swear his loyalty. Jin refuses, and Shimura disowns him before ordering his arrest.
Jin's allies help him escape captivity, but his beloved horse is fatally shot by archers in the process. Jin travels north and learns the Mongols have stockpiled his poison, which they intend to use in their assault on the Japanese mainland. Before gathering his allies, claiming a new horse, and assaulting the Khan's final stronghold in Port Izumi, Jin leaves a note for Shimura in his castle asking him to join the effort under the shogunate's banner, which he does. With the bulk of the Mongol forces distracted, Jin infiltrates the port and kills the Khan on his flagship.
With Khotun Khan dead, the Mongol invasion loses momentum, and the tide turns in favor of the samurai. Shimura informs Jin the shogunate considers him a threat to the island's stability and status quo of obedience of the people to their leaders. With Clan Sakai legally disbanded, Jin is now an outlaw. The two men face each other in a duel, with Jin emerging victorious; the player can then either choose to kill Shimura, giving him a warrior's death, or spare his life. Regardless, Jin becomes an enemy of the shogunate but continues protecting Tsushima.

Iki Island

Jin comes across villagers who have been driven insane by a poison described as "sacred medicine." It was administered to them by a warband of Mongols whom Jin had never previously encountered: members of the Mongolian Eagle Tribe, led by Ankhsar "The Eagle" Khatun (Anzu Lawson / Urara Takano). Defeating the warband, Jin learns that the Eagle is engaged in a conquest of Iki Island, where his late father Kazumasa (Lee Shorten / Kissei Kumamoto) had once led an unsuccessful military campaign against the island's raiders. The samurai withdrew from the island after Kazumasa was ambushed and killed by the raiders. Jin was there during the campaign as a boy; he witnessed his father's death and still blames himself for not saving him. Because of this new threat to Tsushima, Jin sails to Iki Island to stop the Eagle and face his past.
A thunderstorm destroys Jin's boat, but he survives and arrives at Iki. Discovering the Eagle's base to be his father's former stronghold, Fort Sakai, Jin storms the fort but is subdued and captured by the Eagle's second-in-command, Khunbish. He and the Eagle force-feed Jin the "sacred medicine" in an attempt to convert him into one of the tribe's shamans. The poison causes Jin to frequently hallucinate visions of the Eagle, his deceased father, and many of his past failures. He is rescued by the raider Tenzo (Greg Chun / Mitsutoshi Shundo), who reluctantly accepts Jin's help and takes him to the raiders' leader, Fune.
Jin works with the raiders to weaken the Eagle's hold over the island, eventually retaking Fort Sakai and killing Khunbish. After fending off retaliation by the Eagle's forces, Jin hears Tenzo say, "May your death benefit all beings" to a dying Mongol — the same phrase a masked raider spoke to Kazumasa before killing him. Realizing that Tenzo killed his father, Jin nearly kills Tenzo before controlling his anger. He proposes re-enacting the ambush that killed his father to lure out the Eagle and ultimately kill her. Although suffering from near-continuous hallucinations, Jin overcomes the effects of the "sacred medicine" by acknowledging his father's faults and, at last, coming to terms with his death. Jin kills the Eagle in a duel, turning the tide in the raiders' favor. Jin and Tenzo forgive each other before parting ways.